Recent content by vuldub

That's good advice - I'm sanding right now and polishing with the 3401, so maybe I will be trying the wool in the rotary yet....

I have owned the DA portercable 7424 (non XP) model for several years and used it for light polishing and waxing. Recently I tackled a project on my 52 jeep and needed more power, so I bought a Mikita 9237C rotary. I used denim and velvet Carpro pads and briefly tried wool pads with it. Then...

Going to try to answer the questions myself.... The Flex3401 is too powerful. Use the portercable or the air DA on 25% power. Also , I'm not wet sanding, rather damp sanding. I'm going to use Mequiars #04 Heavy cut cleaner (8/10) on the wool pad at 900rpms. Still researching.....

Re-sprayed the clearcoat on the weekend and it went pretty well. Very slight orange peel, however I got a few drips to sand out and some dirt contaminants entrained in the clearcoat. I bought a 3M Trizact 3000 grit pad and would like to use it. My plan is to block sand out the drips by hand...

Before I slip away for a while to re-spray, I want to clarify something. This job is my "test". My jeep was painted in 1994 and had some pretty bad scratches and horribly sunbaked fat pinstriping. I started by repairing the paint on fender, cowling and underside of the hood and it turned out...

Ok, I can't show the final photos yet. I cut through the clear coat in a spot test. Not enough to damage the basecoat, but I need to re-spray the clear. Then go from there. Oh well I can hone my "non orange peel" spray techniques.

Thanks for the chart. Its going on the garage wall!

Thanks for the link Bob. There's so much on this forum the search is sometimes worthless.....

I understand the Mirror Glaze family, but this product is available where I live and it does not have a cut rating. How does it fit in the Meguiars family? http://www.meguiars.com/en/automotive/products/g17216-ultimate-compound/

Back to the DA with an orange foam pad and SSR3. Nada. No go. Still got the marks. Then I had an epiphany, try the velvet pad on the DA with Meguiar's Heavy Cut M0416 (8/10) (I can't find Ultra Cut M105 here and wasn't patient enough to order it). Still couldn't get the swirl marks out. So I put...

You can see the swirl marks on the right side of the reflected florescent light:

I decided to buy a rotary buffer - got the Makita 9237CX2 - sweet machine, quiet, slow startup and I found one locally on sale. So my thoughts were, if the orange peel removing pads were designed for the rotary buffer, then I would likely get the most out of them on a rotary machine, since the...

First I tried the denim pad on the my DA portercable with Poorboys SS3. After 3 separate runs with 6-8 passes I still was not satisfied. See photos belows. Fender: Hood:

Ok, time for an update. I ordered and received the denim and velvet Carpro pads.